Re: [MacPerl] Line at a time mail client

["Max Pinton" <max@maxgraphic.com>]

There's a REALbasic app called "Mail Siphon" that lets you view headers and
delete individual emails. I haven't used it much, but it appears to work.

http://www.maccentral.com/news/9903/21.mailsiphon.shtml

> Help me before I reinvent the wheel again :-)
>
> Last night, my wife (using a *MAC*) had her secretary send her some 100+
> megabyte attachments by email which caused all her email software to croak.
> The attachments were no big deal (she could have walked down the hall and
> gotten them on a ZIP disk) but it meant the rest of her mail file was
> unuseable, and she stores oodles of email messages there.  I solved the
> problem by downloading the mail spool file, and writing a *PERL* script to
> copy out all of the messages not from her secretary into a new file which I
> then put back into her spool, thus becoming a hero.
>
> Similar email disasters happen often and I was thinking that knocking off a
> quick, portable perl script (which could be run in *MacPerl*, for example)
> to solve them generically.  The key is that most (all?) email programs
> slurp an entire email message into memory, whereas what I plan to write
> would deal with email one line at a time, thus obviating the message size
> problem. I think such a program might be something that would please the
> Author of my story, but only if it hadn't already been done.
>
> Has it?
>
> -David-
>
> David Steffen, Ph.D.
> President, Biomedical Computing, Inc. <http://www.biomedcomp.com/>
> Phone: (713) 610-9770 FAX: (713) 610-9769 E-mail: steffen@biomedcomp.com

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Max Pinton, max@maxgraphic.com
Maxgraphic Digital Portfolio, http://www.maxgraphic.com/

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